Just stumbled on your history , Neil- fascinating. Growing up in Cincinnati, I heard about how my mom's family also lived through The Flood. She would say it's why her family moved "up the hill" to the neighborhood of Avondale from the West End where my grandparents had settled in the early 1900s, to escape disease from a horrible lack of sanitation in the aftermath. Safer moving to higher ground--but it was also true that Avondale was a wealthier neighborhood at the time, a marker of how her Russian-Jewish immigrant parents were making their way up in the world financially. Not sure whether the flood tale is more apocryphal than factual, but that was the story Mom told!
Thank you for stopping by, Robin. I appreciate your comment and your family story about the flood. The flood dispersed so many people (more than a million) throughout the Ohio and Mississippi valleys. I, for one, would not doubt your family's story. There were so many difficulties both during the flood and the aftermath. Thanks also for the link to the Cincinnati coverage.
Just stumbled on your history , Neil- fascinating. Growing up in Cincinnati, I heard about how my mom's family also lived through The Flood. She would say it's why her family moved "up the hill" to the neighborhood of Avondale from the West End where my grandparents had settled in the early 1900s, to escape disease from a horrible lack of sanitation in the aftermath. Safer moving to higher ground--but it was also true that Avondale was a wealthier neighborhood at the time, a marker of how her Russian-Jewish immigrant parents were making their way up in the world financially. Not sure whether the flood tale is more apocryphal than factual, but that was the story Mom told!
Some newspaper clippings from the Cincinnati Enquirer documenting that event https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/33ce2215515e40e0986cd044f76fdaac
Thank you for stopping by, Robin. I appreciate your comment and your family story about the flood. The flood dispersed so many people (more than a million) throughout the Ohio and Mississippi valleys. I, for one, would not doubt your family's story. There were so many difficulties both during the flood and the aftermath. Thanks also for the link to the Cincinnati coverage.
I like your voice here.
Thank you.
Well written.
Tom, thanks so much for readinng.